TY - JOUR
T1 - 'It's not how it was'
T2 - The Chilean diaspora's changing landscape of belonging
AU - Ramírez, Carolina
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - The increasingly diverse character of London's multicultural landscape has shaped how migrants interact with(in) the different spaces of the city. This process entails both settled and incoming migrants' participation in place-making; a mutual imbrication that might promote the long-settled migrants' evocation of a lost terrain. This article unpacks that process by looking at the Latin American social football scene of South London, specifically a space known as la cancha (the pitch). This was founded by Chilean political refugees during the 1970s and it has incorporated Latin American 'economic' migrants and 'local' Britons through time. Starting from the evocation of a lost 'golden age' of la cancha, the paper unpacks this space's contested, complex and changing nature. It presents diaspora space, community and belonging as lived processes. Through this depiction, the assumptions of homogeneous and isolated migrant communities are challenged, as are the diaspora's nostalgic claims that also emerge from them.
AB - The increasingly diverse character of London's multicultural landscape has shaped how migrants interact with(in) the different spaces of the city. This process entails both settled and incoming migrants' participation in place-making; a mutual imbrication that might promote the long-settled migrants' evocation of a lost terrain. This article unpacks that process by looking at the Latin American social football scene of South London, specifically a space known as la cancha (the pitch). This was founded by Chilean political refugees during the 1970s and it has incorporated Latin American 'economic' migrants and 'local' Britons through time. Starting from the evocation of a lost 'golden age' of la cancha, the paper unpacks this space's contested, complex and changing nature. It presents diaspora space, community and belonging as lived processes. Through this depiction, the assumptions of homogeneous and isolated migrant communities are challenged, as are the diaspora's nostalgic claims that also emerge from them.
KW - Chilean diaspora
KW - Latin American London
KW - diaspora space
KW - everyday super-diversity
KW - home
KW - social scenes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894555257&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2013.808759
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2013.808759
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84894555257
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 37
SP - 668
EP - 684
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 4
ER -